Underplayed Gems

Urikupen Kyūjotai (1974)

Urikupen Kyūjotai poster
Original title
ウリクペン救助隊
Directed by
Hiroshi Sasagawa
Genre
animation, family, kids, Adventure, Comedy
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 132 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A rescue team of animal characters goes on short adventures. The show was originally a series of five-minute episodes from Japan in the 1970s.

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What happens

Urikupen Kyūjotai (ウリクペン救助隊, Urikupen Kyūjotai; Urikupen Rescue Team) is a 1974 short anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa. The series premiered on Fuji Television on September 30, 1974, and ended on March 29, 1975. Much later in 1991, Saban Entertainment has licensed and adapted the anime series for a worldwide release outside of Japan under the name, Jungle Tales and has condensed the 132 5-minute (serialized) episodes into 22 half-hour episodes. The voice casting and the English language dubbing production was done in-house by CINAR Studios, Inc. in Montreal, Canada. It has been broadcast on YTV in Canada. Heavy changes were made to the adaptation dub of the series. One being such is a new music score that was all digitally composed and sampled with an E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestra synthesizer. Other changes involve different character names used and gender changes for two characters. At the end of each condensed episode, a 3-minute music video was added to summarize the episode's plot. Many foreign dubs of the anime series would be mere translations of the dub. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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